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Diploma thesis "Concurrent Programming for Scalable Web Architectures" released under Creative Commons license

Concurrent Programming for Scalable Web Architectures

Online: http://erb.io/thesis

How to contribute

1. Fork the repository: https://github.com/berb/diploma-thesis/

2. Switch to the gh-pages branch.

3. Make your corrections, extensions and enhancements to the community edition in the community/ directory.

4. Commit your changes and send a pull request. Please provide some comments to your changes.

diploma-thesis's Issues

Wrong preposition.

5.3.
"The dosync function is used for encapsulate transactional operations and all function calls in its function body run in the same transaction."
Not "for" but "to"
"The dosync function is used to encapsulate transactional operations and all function calls in its function body run in the same transaction."

Typo: "scalabale"

3.3 An Architectural Model for "Scalabale" Web Infrastructures

There's no Hoa74 in bibliography

A more advanced construct for mutual exclusion is the monitor [Hoa74,Lam79b] that modularly protects sections using condition variables.

http://berb.github.io/diploma-thesis/community/052_threads.html#lock

Hoa74 is not in bibliography.

Would be nice to have a date on this great publication

Would be nice to have a date on this great publication

epub version

i would love to have an epub version. I tried with pandoc but i don't know how to use this to create a correct toc from the html input.

pandoc -f html -t epub -o berb.epub original/*.html

Fix acronyms

Compared to the print version, acronyms are never introduced and always the short version is used. This should be fixed by providing the long name once the acronym is used for the first time.

PDF Version

Looks very interesting, Is it possible to get this as a good old printable PDF?

Misspelling on page

http://berb.github.com/diploma-thesis/community/041_overview.html

completition

should be

completion

Grammatic error

5.2
"Java monitors are reentrant and recursive calls are supported."
Maybe "Java monitors support reentrant and recursive calls." ?

Spelling

"The Google App Egnine", should be "Engine"

Under cloud based examples here: http://berb.github.io/diploma-thesis/original/033_archmodel.html#data

Comma not needed

"The fundamental idea of a single-threaded event loop eases concurrency concerns by providing a simple, and straight model of parallelism." Why comma after "simple"? There's an "and" already in place.

Reads weird - suggest rewording

Chapter 4.3, Task Management, 4th sentence: "While this strategy prevents state conflicts due to isolated execution, it does not allow to exploit true parallelism." - suggest rewording to: "While..., it precludes exploitation of true parallelism."

No printable version of the non-thesis version

Doesn't seem to be a link to download a PDF or HTML suitable version for printing.

A broken link?

"Therefore, Clojure provides four different types of references to mutable state, that have different impacts, as shown in table :autorefClojure primitives for handling mutable state.5.0". Looks like there's no anchor #tbl:clojure_state

Awkward sentence

http://berb.github.com/diploma-thesis/community/052_threads.html

Awkward:
The synchronized keyword allows to guard an entire method or a distinct code block, using the callee resp. a given object as monitor object.

Suggest:
The synchronized keyword guards an entire method or a distinct code block using a given object as monitor.

I'm not sure the suggestion matches the original intent but the grammar is cleaned up and more succinct. I have no idea what "using the callee resp. a given..." means.

Unneeded article

5.3 "The minimalistic application defines a counter of type ref and a registers a function for request handling"